As with most file recovery problems, document recovery can be divided into two areas of pursuit. The first of these is simple scanning and retrieving of accidentally deleted document file types. The most common of these are Microsoft Word documents and Microsoft Rich Text files. Other popular word processor types are Abiword files and Open Office files.
If you have accidentally deleted any of these types of files created on a word processor, File Finder can locate them on either your computer’s internal hard drive or any digital storage device connected to your computer. In truth this is the easiest type of file recovery problem to solve. After loading File Finder on your computer, choose from the drop down menu the drive letter and corresponding drive from which you have recently deleted files. Click find files and File Finder will scan through that drive in just a few minutes. That scan will create for you a list of all existing and recently deleted files on that drive. File Finder includes a sort function which will then narrow down all the recoverable files to a short list of known document file types. If your document type is not shown on the list simply type the file extension it uses into the File Finder search box only those files will be shown.
A more complicated document recovery need exists when we have begun to create a document and closed writing area before saving our work. Instructions on how to recover these and other temporary desktop files are included in the File Finder advanced instructions which of course come with your copy of File Finder.
